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Why Skin Loves Lanolin

Welcome to Spring, officially! Here at the farm we are getting ready for April showers to bring us May flowers. Dry skin season is thankfully winding down, but you can still feel the benefits of a daily regimen using our skin cream. Here’s what Cindy in Chagrin Falls, OH has to say about it:

High Meadow Skin Cream has proven to be the most effective solution to my daughters’ sensitive skin. On both hands and face this cream has cleared up rashes and rough skin problems she has had since youth.
I am the mother of seven children and highly recommend this quality natural cream as a solution for any skin issues.
This cream has also become my skin cream of choice. I use it daily and am very happy with the results.

And now here’s an interesting scientific take on why our skin loves lanolin, reprinted from Body + Soul:

Lanolin was once considered to be a big beauty no-no. Companies would label their product to be ‘lanolin-free,’ as if the ingredient was an inherently bad thing. Turns out, however, lanolin is one of the most skin-loving ingredients around.

Granted, the ingredient, which is derived from the grease extracted from sheep’s wool, doesn’t sound pretty. But it offers impressive benefits for the skin. “Its molecular structure most closely resembles that of human skin lipids,” says Kirsten Carriol, founder of Lanolips, an award-winning range of lanolin-based treatment products. “Also, it’s a semi-occlusive breathable barrier, so it protects and absorbs at the same time. And once it penetrates into the skin, it holds up to 400 times its weight in water, so it’s a fantastic moisture reservoir for skin.” In short, lanolin works double-duty; it both moisturizes skin from the outside, and helps the skin to moisturize itself from within. The result: baby-soft skin.

Where it all began

Lanolin has been used as a moisturizer since Ancient Greek times. It wasn’t until the 1960s that it began to garner a bad name for itself, with consumers reporting allergies to lanolin. It is now known that the real culprit was modern, pesticide-laden farming practices; if lanolin is not highly processed and purified, traces of such chemicals remain in the lanolin, with the potential to trigger allergic reactions down the line. Changes in these practices, as well as developments in processing technology, have allowed for much purer lanolin to hit the market.

Cult creation

Now that lanolin has been embraced once again by the beauty mainstream (Lanolips won a prestigious Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Award for Britain’s ‘Best new skincare treatment’), look set to see lanolin star in a new generation of beauty buys.

Read the full article on Body + Soul.

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The Dermatology Review on Lanolin Skin Cream

This week brought another wave of snow to the farm and throughout the Midwest. Hopefully this will be the last snowfall of this otherwise relatively mild winter. But our lanolin skin cream is not just effective for healing dry skin as a result of cold weather. There are many, many uses for lanolin skin cream. We would like to share another success story from one of our enthusiastic customers. This comes from Sheila in Chagrin Falls, OH:

As a health care professional, I am required to wash my hands repeatedly. Honestly – and I am not kidding – I probably wash my hands 20 to 30 times a day!

What a complete and total dream come true it is to have your HMSC for my hands. I apply your product once in the morning and it soothes and smooths my hands. And as the naturally occurring lanolin on which your product is based repels water, my hands are protected from water damage and chapping despite being washed 20 to 30 times a day.

There isn’t a health care professional out there who doesn’t need and won’t want your product! Thank you so much for rescuing my hands from… daily water torture!

Now read more on lanolin skin cream courtesy of The Dermatology Review:

Lanolin Cream: Its Properties, Uses, and Benefits

The soothing, moisturizing, and healing effects of lanolin cream have been known to benefit nearly every skin type. This cream has been used for decades in a wide variety of applications, from lotions that soften rough heels, to soothing severely dry skin, and easing the chapped and cracked skin on the nipples of nursing mothers. Lanolin is a natural and organic chemical that is mainly known for its moisturizing effects on the skin. However, before anyone uses a lanolin cream as a part of their skin care regimen, it is important to be aware of any possible side effects that can occur.

Healing Properties

While lanolin cream is used widely in beauty regimens, it is also well known for use on skin that is cracked or extremely dry. People who suffer from calloused heels and hands can benefit from this cream, as it helps the skin to retain its natural moisture in addition to the moisture contained within the cream.

Lanolin cream is also popular with people who have reoccurring skin conditions that cause scaling and itching skin, as the moisturizing properties of this cream ease the itching, while making the skin softer. Skin that is dry, cracked, and bleeding from extreme weather conditions can also benefit from lanolin cream, as the moisture barrier it creates keeps the skin from repeatedly cracking and helps to seal in moisture.

Lanolin Cream as Part of a Skin Care Regimen

Anyone who is fighting overly dry and thickening skin may want to consider adding a lanolin cream to their skin care regimen. Women who wear sandals or high heels often find that the skin on their heels starts to thicken, crack, and peel from friction and exposure. When this happens, everyday moisturizers usually have no effect on skin that is this damaged, because they cannot penetrate deeply enough into the layers. Over time, the skin continues to thicken and becomes scaly and even discolored.

However, a lanolin cream can penetrate the layers of dead skin to soften them so that they can be removed with exfoliating tools, leaving the skin on the heel smoother and moisturized. It is usually most effective to apply a lanolin cream before you go to bed so that it sinks into the skin overnight and penetrates the dead layers for easy removal the following morning.

Possible Side Effects of a Lanolin Cream

While a lanolin cream has a number of beneficial properties when it comes to healing and moisturizing dry, cracked skin, people who are considering its use should be aware that… because lanolin oil is derived from sheep’s wool, people who have allergies to wool should not use any cream that contains lanolin. Before anyone uses a lanolin cream, they should test a small patch of skin first to see if they suffer any adverse reactions, especially if they have never used it before.

Read the full article on The Dermatology Review.

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The Benefits of Lanolin Skin Cream

For High Meadow Skin Care users, it’s hard to tell that we’re in the middle of dry skin season, thanks to our all-natural lanolin skin cream. Take Roy, from Kirtland, OH:

It is dry hands weather again, and my hands are dried out and uncomfortable. I work with my hands and its not easy working as hard as I do with dried out, cracked hands.

Imagine my delight when I applied your HMSC product to my hands a couple of times and the dried out cracked up condition of my hands was cured. It is indeed a wonderful miracle.

Thank you so much for such a wonderful product that cures my hands in dry hands weather!

Why is lanolin skin cream so effective in healing dry skin?

According to WebMD:

“[Lanolin] is used as a moisturizer to treat or prevent dry, rough, scaly, itchy skin and minor skin irritations (e.g., diaper rash, skin burns from radiation therapy). Emollients are substances that soften and moisturize the skin and decrease itching and flaking. Some products (e.g., zinc oxide, white petrolatum) are used mostly to protect the skin against irritation (e.g., from wetness).

Dry skin is caused by a loss of water in the upper layer of the skin. Emollients/moisturizers work by forming an oily layer on the top of the skin that traps water in the skin. Petrolatum, lanolin, mineral oil and dimethicone are common emollients. Humectants, including glycerin, lecithin, and propylene glycol, draw water into the outer layer of skin. Many products also have ingredients that soften the horny substance (keratin) that holds the top layer of skin cells together (e.g., urea, alpha hydroxy acids such as lactic/citric/glycolic acid, and allantoin). This helps the dead skin cells fall off, helps the skin keep in more water, and leaves the skin feeling smoother and softer.

How to use lanolin topical:

Apply to the affected areas of the skin as needed or as directed on the label or by your doctor. How often you apply the medication will depend on the product and your skin condition. To treat dry hands, you may need to use the product every time you wash your hands, applying it throughout the day. (Ed. Note: Not High Meadow Skin Care – our formula is proven to last all day long!)

If you are using this product to help treat diaper rash, clean the diaper area well before use and allow the area to dry before applying the product.

If you are using this product to help treat radiation skin burns, check with radiation personnel to see if your brand can be applied before radiation therapy.

Follow all the directions on the label for proper use. Apply to the skin only. Avoid sensitive areas such as your eyes, inside your mouth/nose, and the vaginal/groin area, unless the label or your doctor directs you otherwise. Check the label for directions about any areas or types of skin where you should not apply the product (e.g., on the face, any areas of broken/chapped/cut/irritated/scraped skin, or on a recently shaved area of the skin). Consult your doctor or pharmacist for more details.

Use this medication regularly to get the most benefit from it. Most moisturizers need water to work well. Apply the product after bathing/showering while the skin is still damp. For very dry skin, your doctor may instruct you to soak the area before using the product. Long, hot, or frequent bathing/washing can worsen dry skin.

If your condition persists or worsens, or if you think you may have a serious medical problem, seek immediate medical attention.”

Order your High Meadow Skin Care all-natural lanolin skin cream today!

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Offering Premium Sheep-Related Products Direct to the Consumer

When my four children were all off to college, Shady Hill Farms began to change its focus.

First, Shady Hill Farms transitioned from producing primarily show sheep, to producing seed stock for the sheep industry. Today Shady Hill Farms produces premium seed stock, and these sheep are in demand Worldwide.

Second, Shady Hill Farms started to focus on the premium products it could offer to discriminating consumers.

Shady Hill Farm offered premium lamb, and for a period sold our lamb products all over the Northeast Ohio area by way of farmers markets. Our lamb was universally recognized as the very best out there.

Shady Hill Farms also offered heirloom quality 100% virgin wool blankets. We had been having blankets made for years, primarily to be used as gifts for family and friends. We started offering these hard to find blankets for sale to the public.

HealthiWools, machine washable sheep skins, have also proven very popular for a wide array of applications.

Most recently, we developed and are now producing and distributing a lanolin based skin care product line, High Meadow Skin Care.

The demand for these products has been so tremendous that we intend to re start making these products available to our supporters across the Country. The sale of these premium products will defray the costs of maintaining the sheep and the sheep farm going forward.

We are so excited about this next chapter!

Ben

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New Skin Cream Reviews on Facebook

The reviews are coming in on our new social media pages. Thanks to everyone who has shared their positive experiences. You can see them by clicking the “Reviews” tab on the top-right of the screen. Please contribute your own High Meadow Skin Care story, and help us spread the word about the healing power of lanolin in our skin cream!

Click here to visit our Facebook page.

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Fighting Dry Skin & Making Hay While the Sun Shines!

It’s dry skin season again – these winter months can become very uncomfortable for many people. That is, unless you’re equipped with a nourishing skin cream such as our all-natural lanolin High Meadow Skin Care products. Here at the farm, there are always benefits to learning how to prepare for winter.

Folks there is nothing like making hay while the sun shines – in farming and in life!

As a sustainable sheep farm, we make our hay during the Summer months so we have forage (feed) for the sheep flocks during the Winter months (when the ground is snow covered and the sheep are most typically in the barns and dropping their lambs).

Hay is dried grass, nothing more and nothing less. We prefer for our hay to be nutrient rich alfalfa or clover or occasionally a clover/ orchard grass mix. High protein content for the sheep (most of which are pregnant by the time they head into the barns for Winter).

In order for the cut grass to dry properly, and to be safely and properly stored as hay, we sheep farmers need to mow the hay, dry the hay and then bale the hay, and get the bales under cover in the haylofts of the barns, all while the sun shines.

First, we cut the hay, most typically with a haybine. The haybine cuts the hay at ground level and then typically crushes it between a set of rollers before laying it down in a wind row. The haybine is an implement pulled behind the tractor.

The next day, after the hay is cut with the haybine, we sheep farmers will rake the hay with a rake which is another implement pulled behind the tractor. By raking the hay the windrow is turned over so that the hay that was on the underside of the windrow as the hay was cut and laid down is on the top of the windrow and will dry in the hot sun.

Typically on day three, we sheep farmers will bale the hay. The hay is often raked again pre baling and then the baler will come down the wind row (behind the tractor) and will compact the dried hay into 50 pound small square bales. The baler is another implement pulled behind the tractor.

That small square baled hay is they hauled to the hayloft on a haywagon and unloaded into the hayloft where it is stored until it is fed to the livestock in the Winter months.

Farmers can make hay only when the sun is shining, or the hay will be put up wet and will spoil.So farmers need to watch the weather and when three nice hot days in a row are predicted, they need to make the hay. In other words they make hay while the sun shines (for three straight days).

That same phrase, make hay while the sun shines, is of general applicability – and not just to livestock farmers.

In that broader sense, when someone encourages you to make hay while the sun shines they are telling you to seize the day and to take advantage of whatever opportunities lie before you when the opportunities are available to you. In other words, do all that you can while you can.

Are you prepared for dry skin season this winter? Use the links on this page to order your all-natural lanolin skin cream today!

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On the Sheep Farm and in Life, Prevention is Always Better Than the Cure

At our sustainable sheep farm, we are reminded every day that an ounce of prevention is far better than a pound of cure.

After over five decades of sheep farming, we have learned more than a few things.

To oversimplify, if we take care of our farm and its soil, the farm will take care of us.

If we take care of our sheep, our sheep will take care of us.

And in the process our healthy farms with healthy soils will take care of our sheep.

And our sheep, with their composted manure that is spread annually across our hay fields and pastures, will take care of our farm.

It is a cycle of life right here on our small acreage.

Our sheep do very well for us and our customers. Why?

I attribute it first and foremost to genetics, as we have sheep that we have carefully selected and managed for over 50 years.

Plus it is the preventative care that we provide for our sheep: we go to great lengths to feed our sheep a balanced diet, to maintain them in a healthy environment, and to vaccinate them against any known illnesses.

You can’t raise sheep for as long as we have without encountering a few sick sheep.

We have had the vet out more than a few times over the decades.

In this process we have learned a great deal about how to maintain the health and productivity of our sheep flocks.

It is really to the point where, now, when we encounter a health problem it is either because we kept a sheep that we should have sold or we failed to do our homework, failed to follow the practices that we have developed to maintain our sheep and prevent health problems.

It occurs to me that on our sheep farm, as in life, prevention is so much better than the cure.

Which is not to say that all problems, all challenges, can be prevented. They can’t be.

But from most problems and challenges, we can learn how to prevent the problems and challenges in the future.

And it is this continuing process of learning, and in particular of learning how to address – or better yet prevent – any and all problems and challenges, that encourages us to plow forward!

Happy holidays from Shady Hill Farms!

Ben

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Number One for Health Care Professionals

Our High Meadow Skin Cream is the number one choice of skin care products among our health care professionals.

Why? Because health care professionals are required to wash their hands constantly during the course of the work day. Our HMSC products featuring lanolin are water repellent and will last the whole day long, continuing to soften and treat and heal the hands of health care professionals despite the constant hand washing.

Don’t take our word for it, take it from our very happy customers!

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Letters From the Farm

Now that the High Meadow Skin Care website, online store, and Facebook Page are all up and running, we will be sending out a letter from the farm a couple times per month.

We look forward to sharing the story of our products, through insights into life here in Newbury, OH at Shady Hill Farms. It is our family-owned sheep farm, and more importantly, our home! We will also share stories from our customers, about how they have effectively treated a wide array of skin maladies with our skin cream.

We will eventually have new products, special offers too and this news will be shared in our newsletters and social media posts.

We will occasionally share the stories of and from our sustainable family sheep – how we raise and care for them, and how the lanolin from their wool makes its way into our products.

Along the way we will also share life-long lessons we have learned on our sheep farm. Here at SHF we certainly learned a great deal of what we ever needed to know in kindergarten. But we learned even more of what we have needed to know living among the animals here at the sheep farm!

Be sure to leave your comments on our social media, email or message us. What we want most is a conversation and a community all involving the natural products that come from sustainable and family-run farms like ours.

Ben

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Treating a Wide Array of Skin Maladies

We, here at SHF, have been continuing to run beta tests on our new High Meadow Skin Care products while we prepare to launch our new e-commerce Web site and to make the first generation of product available across the USA!

What are we learning from our customers?

Our customers tell us that High Meadow Skin Cream is the most effective skin care product available when it comes to treating a wide array of skin maladies.

Customers have reported effective treating and soothing of:

  • Rough, chapped, fissured skin
  • Psoriasis
  • Eczema
  • Calluses
  • Cracked heels
  • Sunburn
  • Windburn
  • Chapped hands
  • Chapped, blistered lips
  • Diaper rash
  • Cradle cap
  • Sore nipples from breast feeding
  • Minor cuts, bruises, burns
  • Bug bite itchiness
  • Cold sores, herpes

Our customers tell us that no skin care product, no matter the cost, is more effective at treating their skin problems than ours!

We will post some of the many testimonials that we are receiving relative to our HMSC product. Do you have a review to share? Email us here or share our website on social media.

Ben

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